Participants

CHRISTINA VON BRAUN
Christina von Braun is a cultural theorist, author and filmmaker. She is a retired professor of cultural studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is co-director of the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg (ZJS – Center for Jewish Studies) established in 2012. Von Braun is the director of over fifty documentary films and the author of numerous books and essays on media and cultural history and attitudes including Der Preis des Geldes. Eine Kulturgeschichte (2012) and is also co-founder and long-time director of the programme of gender studies at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and, since 2008, vice president of the Goethe-Institut. In 2013 von Braun received the Sigmund Freud Kulturpreis (Cultural Award).